Mark N Wexler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5870070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark N Wexler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark N |
| FAMILY NAME | Wexler |
| SIGNATURE | WEXLER M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2725-4559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prize culture
This paper examines the proliferation of awards, prizes, and highly publicized honors in the creative industries as a flexible strategy for adapting the commercial creative ecosystems. Creatives thrive in ritualized status tournaments in which attention markets draw together creative suppliers, brokers, sponsors, and audiences into a loosely bounded ecosystem dependent on transforming reputation into intellectual capital. In the attention economy…
Robo-Advice (RA)
Purpose This conceptual paper explores the implications for the sociology of the professions of robo-advice (RA) provided by robo-advisors (RAs) as an early example of successfully programmed algorithmic knowledge managed by artificial intelligence (AI). Design/methodology/approach The authors examine the drivers of RAs, their success, characteristics, and establish RA as an early precursor of commercialized, programmed professional advice with i…
Re-thinking queue culture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight both the contribution and the present need to reconfigure the literature on “queue culture” as a precursor of the sociology of waiting. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs a legal-structural lens in comparing the initial conceptual treatment of the archetypal “waiting line” with the “line” modifying sociology of waiting that results in waiting rooms, number and telephone queues and i…
Reconfiguring the sociology of the crowd
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the manner in which advocates of crowdsourcing reconfigure the classical sociological treatment of the crowd. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken conceives of the semantics of crowd theorizing in three phases, each of which makes sense of the power dynamics between the elite and the crowd. In phases one and two, the crowd is conceptualized as a problem generator; in phase three, the crowd…
Exploring the moral dimension of wicked problems
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance for sociologically minded planners and policy analysts of the neglected moral dimension of wicked problems. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature on the wicked‐tame problem distinction reveals three critical deficiencies: a fixed focus on dynamic complexity; a neglect of the applied knowledge market and the assumption that wicked problems, in time, are tamable. The…
Successful Resume Fraud
This article investigates the social accounts employed by 11 highly paid professionals and managers for neutralizing the moral stigma of losing their job due to resume fraud. This ethnographic study, based on 66 hours of interviews, explores the retrospective sense making used by resume fraudsters to justify, personally pardon and excuse behaviour seen as morally problematic by others. In this study the resume fraudsters sampled were selected bec…
The Psycho‐Social Significance of Trivia
Deep Ecology
To those concerned with challenges and challengers to conventional wisdom, the entirely credible perception of ours as a planet in the midst of a deep environmental crisis offers fruitful grounds for analysis. Crises stimulate those who have, in the existence of the crisis, firm proof that the wisdom which girds the status quo is deficient and/or those who apply it are. This is particularly true when the crisis is perceived to be grave and dread‐…
Problems in the Grid‐group Analysis of the Environmentalist Movement
Grid‐group analysis is grounded in a humanistic conception of social science but, it is argued, it has flaws when applied to the analysis of the environmental movement. Environmentalism is not “border” country particularly as existing only in opposition to a “centre”. Grid‐group analysis loses clarity when forced into a “border versus centre” format. And the grid‐group analysis of sub‐cultures is not sufficiently well developed; the lack of a cle…
The Image of Business on Canadian-Produced Television
This study employed content analysis to examine the quantity and quality of images of business on Canadian-produced television. The study was stimulated by the business communities perceptions of distortion. Findings reveal that business appeared almost only in news and public affairs programs, and the coverage was found to be more negative in tone than postive or neutral
Exploring the moral dimension of wicked problems
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance for sociologically minded planners and policy analysts of the neglected moral dimension of wicked problems. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature on the wicked‐tame problem distinction reveals three critical deficiencies: a fixed focus on dynamic complexity; a neglect of the applied knowledge market and the assumption that wicked problems, in time, are tamable. The…
Reconfiguring the sociology of the crowd
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the manner in which advocates of crowdsourcing reconfigure the classical sociological treatment of the crowd. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken conceives of the semantics of crowd theorizing in three phases, each of which makes sense of the power dynamics between the elite and the crowd. In phases one and two, the crowd is conceptualized as a problem generator; in phase three, the crowd…
Re-thinking queue culture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight both the contribution and the present need to reconfigure the literature on “queue culture” as a precursor of the sociology of waiting. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs a legal-structural lens in comparing the initial conceptual treatment of the archetypal “waiting line” with the “line” modifying sociology of waiting that results in waiting rooms, number and telephone queues and i…
Successful Resume Fraud
This article investigates the social accounts employed by 11 highly paid professionals and managers for neutralizing the moral stigma of losing their job due to resume fraud. This ethnographic study, based on 66 hours of interviews, explores the retrospective sense making used by resume fraudsters to justify, personally pardon and excuse behaviour seen as morally problematic by others. In this study the resume fraudsters sampled were selected bec…
The Image of Business on Canadian-Produced Television
This study employed content analysis to examine the quantity and quality of images of business on Canadian-produced television. The study was stimulated by the business communities perceptions of distortion. Findings reveal that business appeared almost only in news and public affairs programs, and the coverage was found to be more negative in tone than postive or neutral
Problems in the Grid‐group Analysis of the Environmentalist Movement
Grid‐group analysis is grounded in a humanistic conception of social science but, it is argued, it has flaws when applied to the analysis of the environmental movement. Environmentalism is not “border” country particularly as existing only in opposition to a “centre”. Grid‐group analysis loses clarity when forced into a “border versus centre” format. And the grid‐group analysis of sub‐cultures is not sufficiently well developed; the lack of a cle…
Deep Ecology
To those concerned with challenges and challengers to conventional wisdom, the entirely credible perception of ours as a planet in the midst of a deep environmental crisis offers fruitful grounds for analysis. Crises stimulate those who have, in the existence of the crisis, firm proof that the wisdom which girds the status quo is deficient and/or those who apply it are. This is particularly true when the crisis is perceived to be grave and dread‐…
The Psycho‐Social Significance of Trivia
Successful Resume Fraud
This article investigates the social accounts employed by 11 highly paid professionals and managers for neutralizing the moral stigma of losing their job due to resume fraud. This ethnographic study, based on 66 hours of interviews, explores the retrospective sense making used by resume fraudsters to justify, personally pardon and excuse behaviour seen as morally problematic by others. In this study the resume fraudsters sampled were selected bec…
Exploring the moral dimension of wicked problems
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance for sociologically minded planners and policy analysts of the neglected moral dimension of wicked problems. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature on the wicked‐tame problem distinction reveals three critical deficiencies: a fixed focus on dynamic complexity; a neglect of the applied knowledge market and the assumption that wicked problems, in time, are tamable. The…
Reconfiguring the sociology of the crowd
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the manner in which advocates of crowdsourcing reconfigure the classical sociological treatment of the crowd. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken conceives of the semantics of crowd theorizing in three phases, each of which makes sense of the power dynamics between the elite and the crowd. In phases one and two, the crowd is conceptualized as a problem generator; in phase three, the crowd…
Re-thinking queue culture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight both the contribution and the present need to reconfigure the literature on “queue culture” as a precursor of the sociology of waiting. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs a legal-structural lens in comparing the initial conceptual treatment of the archetypal “waiting line” with the “line” modifying sociology of waiting that results in waiting rooms, number and telephone queues and i…
Robo-Advice (RA)
Purpose This conceptual paper explores the implications for the sociology of the professions of robo-advice (RA) provided by robo-advisors (RAs) as an early example of successfully programmed algorithmic knowledge managed by artificial intelligence (AI). Design/methodology/approach The authors examine the drivers of RAs, their success, characteristics, and establish RA as an early precursor of commercialized, programmed professional advice with i…
Prize culture
This paper examines the proliferation of awards, prizes, and highly publicized honors in the creative industries as a flexible strategy for adapting the commercial creative ecosystems. Creatives thrive in ritualized status tournaments in which attention markets draw together creative suppliers, brokers, sponsors, and audiences into a loosely bounded ecosystem dependent on transforming reputation into intellectual capital. In the attention economy…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Originality (3 works) · Value (mathematics (3 works) · Art (2 works)